Shocking images of Iceland's first glacier melting due to climate change

The scientific community has long warned against the ravages of climate change on our planet. However, a picture is sometimes worth a thousand words. Therefore, NASA published this week's photographs of before and after the Okjokull glacier, in Iceland. As we can see in the publication, in just three decades, the ice mbad has almost completely disappeared.

The satellite captures compare the "iconic" Okjökull in 1986 and 2019, five years after its transformation into the first to be declared "dead" in the country.

Formerly the glacier It measured 38 square kilometers and lying around a crater filled with snow. Today, it has been reduced to a few white and white spots spread throughout the region.

As reported by Earth Observatory, sustained climate change over the years has led Okjökull to currently occupy less than 1 square kilometer.

In this regard, NASA experts have stated that the problem in the region is increasing after the heat wave that hit Europe in 2019. "This is observable in areas of thawed blue waters, which are probably badociated with a mbad of warm air arriving in Iceland during its transfer from mainland Europe to Greenland at the end of July," he said. they explained.

On the occasion of the broadcast of the images, the US Space Agency has published a publication on his Twitter account with a very special ad. "On August 18, 2019, scientists will be among those who will come together to make a commemorative event at the summit of Ok volcano in west-central Iceland. The deceased who is remembered is Okjökull, an iconic glacier who was declared dead in 2014, "they wrote.

In this way, we will remember the glacier with a plaque that will be placed next Sunday in the area occupied by the mbad of ice. He wrote a moving text in the local language and in English, in which it is written: "Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to have lost its glacier status. In the next 200 years, all our glaciers should follow the same path. This monument is a recognition of the fact that we know what is happening and what we should do. Only you will know if we have done. "